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Love Locks are a recent tradition in Europe that has us weak in the knees. Starting in the early 2000s, lovers secure a padlock to a public structure to symbolize their everlasting love. Bridges are popular sites, as the keys are tossed into the water, sealing their emotional bond to a physical place.

Photographer Chris Eayers documented the romantic phenomenon, capturing every love lock on the Millennium Bridge in London on July 22, 2011. 

Photo Credit: Chris Eayers

It took 5 A’Shop artists, 16 days, and 500 cans of paint to create this gigantic graffitied Mother Nature-esque Madonna. The 5 story, Alphonse Mucha inspired mural makes for a stunning stand out among the buildings of Montreal. 

Talk about nostalgia. It’s hard not to get a little misty while looking at these images. We all have those places that take us back to a specific moment in time. A swing, a couch, a parking lot, the house we grew up in. Dear Photograph proves there is something special about witnessing a stranger’s experience through pictures. The common thread being the emotion that comes along with physical evidence that we lived, danced, played in a world that is ever changing. Come on, all together now, “Awwwwwwww.”